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2025 Theme: Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations

Did You Know?

"In 1980, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) was founded in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett, and Bette Morgan to broadcast women’s historical achievements.

The NWHP started by leading a coalition that successfully lobbied Congress to designate March as National Women’s History Month, now celebrated across the land. Since, the beginning, the project has established the theme for women’s history each year and provided resources and materials for education and celebration of the women honored."

Source: National Women's History Alliance > Our History

Read the 1987 Resolution designating March as Women's History Month

Explore Library Books

Becoming by Michelle Obama
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2018
Feminism in Coalition by Liza Taylor
Call Number: HQ1197 .T395 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Geek Girls by France Winddance Twine
Call Number: HD6073.C652 U589 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Recasting the Vote by Cathleen D. Cahill
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2020
Schooling the system : a history of Black women teachers by Aladejebi, Funke
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2021
Unbound Voices by Judy Yung
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2023
Unladylike by Cristen Conger; Caroline Ervin; Tyler Feder (Illustrator)
Call Number: HQ 1155 .C66 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Walk with Me by Kate Clifford Larson
Call Number: E185.97.H35 L37 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Womanist AIDS Activism in the United States by Angelique Harris; Omar Mushtaq
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2022
The Women's Mosque of America by Tazeen M. Ali
Call Number: BP173.4 .A476 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Women in the History of Science by Hannah Wills (Editor); Sadie Harrison (Editor); Erika Lynn Jones (Editor); Rebecca Martin (Editor); Farrah Lawrence-Mackey (Editor); Erika Jones (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2023
A World History of Women Photographers by Luce Lebart (Editor); Marie Robert (Editor)
Call Number: TR139 .H571 2022
Publication Date: 2022

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List of Subject Headings for Further Research

This list of Library of Congress subject headings can help you get started with your research. Try searching these terms in our catalog and databases, and on the internet.

Women in the professions
Leadership in women
Women executives
Businesswomen
Womanism
Women – Biography
Women social reformers
Women and Literature
Women scientists
Women authors, American (may substitute other geographic region)
Women’s Studies
Women – study and teaching
Women’s Rights
Women – civil rights
Women – legal status, laws, etc.
Women – suffrage
Feminism
Feminism - United States (may substitute other geographic region)
Feminist theory
Feminism and higher education
Feminism – cross-cultural studies

Selected Videos

Keepers of the flame : the legacy of three Hawaiian women
"This is the story of three extraordinary Hawaiian women who helped revive Hawaiian culture when it was perilously close to being lost." Academic Video Online
Marsha P. Johnson: Transgender Activist
"he story of Transgender Activist, Marsh P. Johnson, who dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ rights." Academic Video Online
Harriet Robinson Scott
"The story of the enslaved woman who challenged slavery in the highest court in the United States." Academic Video Online
Rebel Girls (Series)
Michelle Obama, Nina Simone, Florence Nightingale, and the list goes on. A series featuring influential women from the past and to today. Academic Video Online
Michelle Obama
"This Rebel Girl is a fierce champion of young women, who held one of the highest positions in public office of any African-American woman before her - as First Lady of the United States. ..." Academic Video Online
Toypurina: Rebelling Against the Mission System
"The story of a Tongva woman who led a rebellion against a Spanish mission in Alta California." Academic Video Online
Untold. Jovita Idar : voice of the people
"In this video, we'll explain the story of Jovita Idar, a Mexican-American journalist who refused to be silenced!" Academic Video Online
Women and the American Story
Short, animated videos of inspiring women's stories from the New York Historical Society.

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Podcasts

9 to 5ish with theSkimm
"The work advice you need, from women who’ve been there. ..."
History Chicks
"Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour."
Lost Women of Science
"Lost Women of Science tells the remarkable stories of groundbreaking women who never got the full recognition they deserved - until now." Lost Women of Science
The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages
"The Other Half tells the forgotten and ignored stories of the most powerful and influential women in history."
Stuff Mom Never Told You
"... This podcast aims to better understand the challenges facing women and marginalized folks all over the world and highlights the tools we can use to tackle them head on."
What'sHerName
" ... Weaving interviews with experts into vivid, nuanced biographies, What'sHerName tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of (but should have). Fascinating and funny, thought-provoking and insightful."
Womanica
"Thinking back to our history classes growing up, we had one question: Where the ladies at? Enter, Womanica. In just 5 minutes a day, learn about different incredible women from throughout history. ..."

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